Recipes and tips for simple, healthy frugal cooking and frugal living

I’ve experimented with various asian peanut sauce recipes.Â There is some kind of peanut sauce variation in Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malaysian and other culinary cultures.Â Most recipes I’ve tried had some less common ingredient I didn’t have or just didn’t taste good.Â I finally hit on something that tastes great to me and is made with ingredients I almost always have.Â Here goes…

The least common items in this are the fish sauce,Â agave and chile sauce.Â The fish sauce I used is the Vietnamese 3 crab brand.Â If you don’t have this or don’t like the taste, just add some salt to taste instead.Â The agave can be easily substituted with any other variety of sugar. The chile sauce could be substituted with cayenne or chile flakes.